Technology is way too often given a bad rap by administrators and educators as a distraction or a hazard for students. When technology is integrated intentionally with foresight and with intention of addressing specific growth-oriented goals, it increases the potential to help students learn, develop, and grow in unique ways. It can be used to help address the needs as described by Maslow.

A good article which tries to point out that digital technologies are here to stay. Having said this, they are not a panacea that guarantees the right change. That is the work of humans and figuring out what changes are best.

Interesting perspective on technology and education reform. A great illustration of the challenges leading change in education that my colleagues and co-authors of #HittingtheEducationBullseye experienced first-hand.

I like the comment about teachers doing their homework. This suggests teachers have a voice in what the curricular direction undertaken in their classrooms. Crowdsourcing is an economic term and hope we do not relegate teaching and learning to economic inputs and outputs.

"The challenge is to find a place which not only satisfies students’ most common needs, but also does it in a way ensuring the quality of the content found and the educational nature of the resource. students, teachers and all education enthusiasts and allows them to exchange knowledge and skills."

They are and they will change. What I found out over the last few years I taught was that one thing that cannot be taken out is the human touch. Students love having stories read to them so the flesh-and-blood librarian is essential.

Tapping the deepest energies of teachers, or any employees, requires a connection with big, meaningful themes that promise a significant, positive effect on the world. The themes contain simple, truthful, future-oriented plot lines—the elements of a story—that provide context for the daily work and help one refocus on larger goals. The more whole hearted the embrace of the goals, the more the hidden resources of the inner self are activated.

At a time of great transformation in the world, there are no shortages of themes to pick from. But teachers have special opportunities to tell a magnificent story about themselves and their profession:

School continues to be caught in a backwash of endless reform/deform. Much of what is passed off as reform is rhetoric and the use of language in deceptive ways. Teaching is a vocation which should give voice to those who engage in it. Is that actually happening?

Maslow, in Maslow on Management, was cautious about digital technology. I think he might agree, like many others, it is here to stay and it how we use it and engage with it that is critical. In that sense, his hierarchy of needs is important.

There is always a need to find a balance in the classroom. That is why having a teacher, a human one, is important. It does not mean things remain the same, but that there is wisdom and prudence only a human can provide in changing how things unfold in the classroom.

Digital technologies can be helpful in teaching and learning, but it is a stretch to say that "technology," not defined as digital technology, has changed education for the better. Where is the evidence for that broad statement?

The call to reexamine what teachers teach can bring renewed discussions of how. With tools like augmented reality, games, and coding, it’s possible to imagine a model of schooling that departs from its behaviorist past—creating a Ludic Education for a Ludic Age, promoting inquiry, collaboration, experimentation, and play. In this vision, teachers and students are partners in a joint venture. They open up the Teaching Machine to peer into its guts and gears—tinkering, failing, and trying again, to see what they can make of it together. The machines can return education to what it’s always been: a project that’s intrinsically human.

Is being a Luddite really that bad? I think of this as someone who questions the way technology, including digital technologies, is used. If it oppressive use, then we should not use it. We seem to have lost sight of the need to care and support teachers and students in their classroom roles.

The comment about anti-technology is interesting. It is where those who support unbridled use of digital technology go with their position. I read Larry Cuban and he indicates that digital technology is here to stay. The key would be learning about the best way to use digital technologies in School.

Flipped Learning: The Big Picture Infographic As we progress rapidly into the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, questions continue to be raised about how education addresses the ever increasing demands for change, integrating emerging technologies, and maximising the possibilities... http://elearninginfographics.com/flipped-learning-big-picture-infographic/

A new way of teaching and learning is making its way into some public schools that, if it gains enough traction, could turn the traditional education system on its head. "Blended learning" is not about credits or grades; it's about mastery ...

Education research expert David Miller reveals five benefits flipped classrooms provide higher education. Miller says that flipped classroom strategies are becoming a great movement, and provide huge benefits to students and professors alike. The benefits include boosting student engagement, assisting in developing more team-based skills, providing personalized guidance for students, focusing on classroom discussions and promoting faculty freedom in the classroom.

Digital technology has been one of the most powerful agents of change in how societies around the world work and live in the 21st century – from the way we do business and consume information to shopping, entertainment and socialising. The way we learn must therefore adapt to ensure students are equipped with the skills needed to thrive as adults now and in the future. Thankfully, many schools are rising to that challenge.

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